Wing Challenge

A few weeks ago Erin and I ate lunch in a place called Buffalo Wild Wings. It's a sports bar chain that specializes in buffalo wings. They feature 14 flavors of buffalo wing sauce ranging from very sweet and mild to extremely hot. Their hottest sauce is called "Blazin", which is two heat levels up from their "Habanero" flavor, so as you can imagine, it's very hot stuff.
I discovered on our lunch trip that they have a wing eating challenge. The rules state that you must eat 12 wings flavored with their spiciest "Blazin" sauce in under six minutes without using napkins or drinking liquids. I vowed that day to take the challenge, and tonight I followed through.



Here I am before the challenge begins.

The wings arrive. I found it a little cheap that they literally drenched the things in the killer sauce. Plus, even though this picture doesn't really show it, the wings seemed much larger than what they normally serve. I was undeterred.

I began eating at a business-like pace as employees looked on with stopwatch in hand.

By the end I was feeling pretty bad, mostly from the volume of food consumed so quickly more so than from the heat of the sauce. At any rate, here I am holding up the bone of my final wing.


Sweet success! I finished all twelve wings in slightly under two minutes, forty five seconds, which is one of their best recorded challenge times (although the top time is nearly a minute faster). For my efforts I received the t-shirt pictured here and my picture and challenge time placed on the wall of fame.